Re: "invalid ICMP error to broadcast"

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 06:57:31AM -0400, John S. Gage wrote:
> I keep getting the following messages on my terminal screen:

You should probably send these kinds of questions to debian-user in the
future. debian-mentors is for people looking for help with creating
Debian packages.

> "NET: 53 messages suppressed
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast
> 172.16.160.53 sent an invalid ICMP error to a broadcast"
> 
> this completely disrupts what I am doing and makes Debian unusable.
> 
> What should I do to get rid of them?

Try 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses'. To
make this permanent, put 'net/ipv4/icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses=1'
in /etc/sysctl.conf.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]